Voted that this Convention presenta Petition to the honorable the Congress praying them to interfere in settling the Disturbances upon the Grants ; and that Charles Phelps Esq'. be desired to carry the same to the Legislature of New York State, and if they approve the measure, and will be at the expence of it, that Mr". Phelps go forward to Philadelphia to wait upon Congress with it :--and as an Agent to sollicit a speedy Determination.

By Order' Attest. SamMueL Mrvnort, Chairman.

Micah Townsend, Clk.

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INSTRUCTIONS OF THE NEW YORK LEGISLATURE .

TO ITS DELEGATES IN CONGRESS RELATIVE TO THE DISORDERS PREVAILING IN THE NORTH EASTERN PARTS OF THE STATE OF

NEW YORK. Kingston, August 27, 1779. Gent".

We anxiously expected that, by an effectual Interposition of Congress, our deluded Fellow Citizens in the North Eastern Parts of the State would before our present meeting have peaceably returned to their duty, and prevented the necessity of coercive Measures to compel a submission to the authority of Legal Government. This we were the more readily induced to hope

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988 CONTROVERSY RESPECTING THE

as we conceive the Terms we have offered to them to be not only perfectly just and equitable but even generous; these pacific Overtures have been disregarded, violence and Outrage are daily committed upon, and the Severest punishment threatened against (the latter of which will appear from the inclosed Copy of an | Act of the Legislature of. the pretended State of Vermont) our | good subjects in Brattleborough and other well affected Towns, who now claim from us that Protection which we have Solemnly promised to them and which consistent with justice wé can no | longer withhold. While on the one hand we view with a degree of Horror the dreadful consequences of having Recourse to Force, not only to this State, and especially to the unhappy People who will be its immediate Object, but also to the common cause of America-- yet on the other we are persuaded our Successful efforts, to - | expel a foreign Tyranny 'will avail us little while we remain | |